A former student of Scorsese at NYU, Stone offered to screen the Vietnam War drama for his old instructor around the time the ...

Both Berenger and Dafoe received Academy Award nominations for their powerful performances. The film itself won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Oliver Stone. Platoon ...

Dafoe, the sixth of eight children ... his first breakthrough film role was as the compassionate Sergeant Elias in Platoon (1986). In 1988 Dafoe starred in another movie set during the Vietnam ...

Prolific Hollywood and stage actor Willem Dafoe raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. Dafoe spoke to Deadline at the Venice Biennale’s 53rd ...

Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon ...